Hey Spook you know LINC Energy's primary goal is to commercialise converting Coal seam gas to liquids i.e. deisel fuels and aviaion fuel which is a green alternative with very little environmental impact compared to CSG but Anna Bligh (your buddy) and her Husband blocked commercialisation in Queensland until after the election and now the LNP have had to start over again and Campbell is busy swinging his axe to care about alternative fuels.

hmmmm, anyone else find it interesting that today Gillard visits the DSD centre in Canberra and announces "that the Government would be establishing a new cyber security centre by the end of the year."

hmmmm, anyone else find it interesting that today Gillard visits the DSD centre in Canberra and announces "that the Government would be establishing a new cyber security centre by the end of the year."

You know whats funny is that in your terrible attempt at humour you are correct.
Linc Energy has their CTL (coal to loquid) plant out at Chinchilla which of course is the supplier of 70% of Australia's watermelons. The Threat of CSG in the area has of course cause a lot of problems in the Chinchilla/Tara area.

If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

For a 'science communicator' this dude sure says some dumb s***.

Fossil fuels are what we have at this stage in human evolution and any alien species that evolved (ie. wasn't handed technology by god or whatever they call him) would have undergone a similar progression to reach whatever they hypothetically would have to use to power such long range travel.

So be embarrassed by s*** like our utter failing as enlightened beings, ignoring suffering in the world in favor of a buck. We should be investing more in alternative energy sources but we also have to live in reality.

For a 'science communicator' this dude sure says some dumb s***.Fossil fuels are what we have at this stage in human evolution and any alien species that evolved (ie. wasn't handed technology by god or whatever they call him) would have undergone a similar progression to reach whatever they hypothetically would have to use to power such long range travel.So be embarrassed by s*** like our utter failing as enlightened beings, ignoring suffering in the world in favor of a buck. We should be investing more in alternative energy sources but we also have to live in reality.

I think that he was suggesting that we could do far better without stabbing ourselves in the foot, but simply aren't making a significant effort to, due to a lack of capability for coordinating long-term preemptive action within our species even when the danger is clear.

I think that he was suggesting that we could do far better without stabbing ourselves in the foot, but simply aren't making a significant effort to, due to a lack of capability for coordinating long-term preemptive action within our species even when the danger is clear.

Its interesting. China is making huge ground in moving away from fossil fuels. I think China is spending something like 500 billion on wind, hydro, nuclear and solar power infrastructure. Kind of embarssing to everyone who likes to use them as a scape goat for not moving away from fossil fuels.

So what’s China gotten for its money so far? Clean power, and plenty of it. The country now has the capacity to generate 6.2 gigawatts of solar power and 68.3 gigawatts of wind, enough to replace the equivalent of about 50 coal-fired power plants.

As I said Peter Bond loves tooting his own pipe. The stock is in a massive uptend and he is just trying to make it run as high as he can.
PS. It was at 53 cents before christmas and now it's almost $3. After the dust settles the SP will come tumbling back down to something more reasonable.

Fossil fuels are what we have at this stage in human evolution and any alien species that evolved (ie. wasn't handed technology by god or whatever they call him) would have undergone a similar progression to reach whatever they hypothetically would have to use to power such long range travel.

I think from the point of view of an astrophysicist - who ever day is looking at things like stars which burn more energy in a nanosecond than our entire planet would in a jillion years or whatever - the power offerings of fossil fuels are just so tiny that talking to some alien species about it would be embarrassing if they'd figured out the secret of cold fusion or some other thing that we know is theoretically possible, but we just haven't figured out how to do.... because we're too busy burning fossil fuels to invade third world nations to get more of those delicious fossil fuels.

if those new technologies are so powerful and efficient they would eclipse fossil fuels. it is hard to beat fossil fuels in termsof the density of the energy. is there even an operational model of cold fusion?

if those new technologies are so powerful and efficient they would eclipse fossil fuels. it is hard to beat fossil fuels in termsof the density of the energy. is there even an operational model of cold fusion?